To:A. I. LYUBIMOV AND M. K. VLADIMIROV

Written:Written July 3, 1911, in ParisPublished:First published in 1933 inLenin Miscellany XXV.

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DearComrades,

Yourspeeches in the Second Group on July 1, 1911, which we have
already qualified as the worst repetition of the worst speeches of the
Economists,[2]and your “bloc” with the Poles (the worst of the
Poles) with a view to a new “play of intrigue”, and with theGolosgroup (Leder’s
“withdrawal”),[3]and with Trotsky (“ten invitations”), and with
theVperyodgroup, and with the liquidators (violation of the
agreement which was accepted even by Igorev)—all this has made it fully
and finally clear to us thatno political and moral unityis
possible between us. Since we have hitherto consulted with you on all
cardinal steps, we consider it our duty to inform you of this.

Atthe last meeting Mark saw fit to say: “We ‘conciliators’ shall
withdraw from the Technical Commission and the Organising Commission if you
Bolsheviks persist in pursuing a ‘factional’ policy.”

Wedeclare thatwe shall withdrawfrom the T.C. and the
O.C. if you continue your policy, which we consider extremely harmful for
the Party.

Weshall wait for your reply—if such is necessary—until 11 a.m. on
Wednesday, July 5, 1911, at Kamenev’s, after which we will submit our
statement to the T.C. and the O.C. and will come out against you before the
Party.

WithSocial-Democratic greetings,N. Lenin[1]

[1]Theletter was also signed by G. Y. Zinoviev, L. B. Kamenev,
N. Alexandrov (N. A. Semashko) and Kamsky
(M. F. Vladimirsky).—Ed.

[2]TheR.S.D.L.P. Second Promotion Group in Paris formed on November 18
(new style), 1908, separated from the previous Paris group which had
included the Mensheviks as well. In 1911 the group included Lenin, Nadezhda
Krupskaya, N. A. Semashko, M. F. Vladimirsky, Inessa Armand and other
Bolsheviks; A. I. Lyubimov, M. K. Vladimirov and other conciliators, and
someVperyodsupporters.

Ameeting of the group held on July 1 (new style), 1911, discussed the
situation in the Party, and adopted a resolution drafted by Lenin (see
present edition, Vol. 17, pp. 216–24) with a majority of 27 votes. Ten
votes were cast for a conciliatory resolution submitted by the minority. It
is the conciliatory speeches of Lyubimov and Vladimirov at this meeting
that Lenin calls “the worst repetition of the worst speeches of the
Economists”.

[3]The“bloc”of the conciliators with the Polish
Social-Democrats(in the present letter the reference is to Tyszka and
Leder) was directed against the Bolsheviks. After the June 1911 conference
of members of the C.C., R.S.D.L.P., abroad at the time, the conciliators
Lyubimov and Vladimirov, together with the Polish Social-DemocratTyszka, challenged the composition of the Organising Commission Abroad, for
the convocation of the Party conference, seeking with the support of the
Polish Social-Democrats to win the majority in it for the conciliators.

The“play of intrigue” on the part of the conciliators and
the Polish Social-Democrats with theGolosgroup was expressed in
the support they gave to Martov and Dan, who had withdrawn from the
Editorial Board of the Central Organ,Sotsial-Demokrat, after the
June conference. The fifth member of the Editorial Board, Leder, issued an
ultimatum that he would “withdraw” unless two other Mensheviks were
brought in. The conciliators sided with the Polish Social-Democrats.